On Ronald Reagan’s birthday, it seemed appropriate to post this 1960s audio of the Gipper’s warning against Medicare mission creep. Here’s the money quote:
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism, or socialism, on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project.
He believed that, once the […]
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REAGAN ON SOCIALIZED MEDICINE
S. CAROLINA AG WILL LOOK AT NELSON’S BRIBE
It looks like South Carolina Senators Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint are interested in the legality of Harry Reid’s payoff to Ben Nelson. The Nebraska Senator’s special Medicaid deal doesn’t pass the smell test, so they have asked their state AG to have a look:
South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster said Tuesday that he intends […]
55 BILLION REASONS TO JUST SAY NO
The Office of Management and Budget just issued a report proving (for anyone susceptible to objective data) that government-run health care is a monumentally bad idea:
Improper payments in the Medicare and Medicaid programs totaled $55 billion in fiscal 2009, according to documents provided by OMB.
Medicare and Medicaid, our progressive friends tell us, are the most […]
DUMBEST REFORM POST OF THE WEEK (I)
Timothy Noah wins this prize without serious competition. Responding to an analysis from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that contained inconvenient facts about the House “reform” bill, he reminds us that the author of the CMS report works for … er … CMS:
On the other hand, let’s not forget who it is Richard Foster works for … Foster works for the […]
MEDICAID FORESHADOWS GOVT HEALTH CARE
Scott Gottlieb points out in the Wall Street Journal that Medicaid is an unmittigated disaster for patients:
Accumulating medical data shows that Medicaid recipients’ poor health outcomes aren’t just a function of their underlying medical problems, but a more direct consequence of the program’s shortcomings.
And how do our “leaders” in D.C. respond to efforts to fix the program? Why, they […]
